Callum Jones

I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was eight years old. At that age, it was something I didn’t fully understand — moments of blankness, confusion, and hospital visits that I just accepted as part of life. By the time I was eleven, I was off medication and thought I’d left it all behind. For a while, I did. But when I was fourteen, my seizures came back — mostly absence seizures, though under extreme stress I’ve also experienced tonic-clonic ones. Over the years, they’ve evolved just as I...